On 15/01/2013, at 10:17 AM, Johann Werner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok, last one, really ;)

You love it.

Let me just rearrange the reply a little...

>> The bottom line is this: if I'm _not_ using any of these new Properties 
>> files, has the load order (of all the pre-existing Properties files) changed?
> 
> No.

That's all I really wanted to know.  And given that, I am no longer worried 
about this:

>> Thanks for the answer.  Am I the only one that thinks this might be 
>> problematic?  (Or are you just talking about the load order of the "new" 
>> files?)
> 
> I agree that this can be problematic but weighting the probability that this 
> had been adopted by anyone other than Ken against the added complexity of 
> having two different load orders I exceptionally opted for the former one.

Completely agree.  It wasn't obvious that the change in load order only applied 
to the _new_ Properties files.  Now it is, and I agree with you: it's unlikely 
to have much usage at the moment.

>>> Though that feature was introduced by Ken himself and not documented 
>>> anywhere. I am looking at a lot of code in Wonder and I didn't notice that 
>>> feature until the last pull request. So probably the only person using that 
>>> feature is Ken and as it seems the load order was incorrect for what that 
>>> feature was intended for. So I think in that case it is ok to fix it and 
>>> not keeping it like it was. Of course better documentation on the wiki 
>>> would make this (and the properties load order in common) more attractive 
>>> for everyone.
>> 
>> I'm still not quite sure I'm following—what is the "feature" you're 
>> referring to?  (Feel free to reply tomorrow in your time zone!)
> 
> It's to define some special property files to override the ones you are 
> normally using within your frameworks/applications. But before that patch 
> this didn't work as those were loaded _before_ the "standard" property files 
> and thus getting overwritten instead of the other way around.

Thanks.  Much clearer now.

>> Ken, I really think this needs to be fully documented somewhere.
> 
> I agree.

Over to you, Ken!


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Paul Hoadley
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